Department
Labour Room & Maternity
Mother and newborn as two records, opened together.
The problem
The mother is registered, the baby is written into the mother's file, and a separate identity is created days later when someone needs one. Partogram observations sit on a chart at the bedside. The theatre is booked by phone when a labour turns operative. The birth notification, the discharge summary and the scheme claim are each assembled from a different source.
The platform
How Pensieve serves this
- GateThe admission opens the mother's visit, and the birth opens the newborn's own record and visit rather than an annotation inside hers.
- GlyphThe partogram, the delivery note and the consent for an operative delivery are structured forms, locked on completion and versioned.
- QuestTimed observations in labour run as due tasks against the roster, so the interval is owned rather than remembered.
- AtlasThe antenatal record, the delivery and the newborn examination read as one timeline, and the discharge summary is assembled from it.
What changes
- The newborn has an identity from the first minute, and the paediatric record attaches to it.
- Labour observations are timed tasks with a named owner, rather than a chart at the bedside.
- The birth record, the discharge summary and the claim are three readings of one set of facts.